Steven Soderbergh
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1950s Detroit, the movie centers on a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document. When their plan goes wrong, their search for who hired them and for what ultimate purpose weaves them through all echelons of the race-torn, rapidly changing city.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and executive produced by Jerry Weintraub, this HBO Films drama recreates the glittering private world of Liberace, the flamboyant, phenomenally successful entertainer whose extravagant costumes, trademark candelabra, and elaborate stage shows made him the most bankable entertainer of his time.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a famous author who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to manage the women, along with her literary agent, who is impatient to find out about her next book.
4) Side effects
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Graham, a long-lost college friend ... drifts back into town and into the lives of John, a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, Ann, and her saucy sister, Cynthia. One by one, each is drawn into the very 'personal project' Graham is working on, leaving the relationships between them forever transformed"--Container.
6) Contagion
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
7) Unsane
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Still scarred from the trauma of being terrorized by a stalker, Sawyer Valentini receives treatments at the Highland Creek Behavioral Center. However, shortly after she unwittingly commits herself to the mental institution and is unable to leave, she catches sight of a facility staffer who, she is convinced, is actually her stalker. But is he real or a product of her delusion?
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre. The FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent.
9) Traffic
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents a mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in an often deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business; and the U.S. President's new drug czar must deal with his increasingly drug-addicted...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can't refuse, and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind, will he, and the roster of hot new dancers he'll have to...
11) Solitary man
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ben Kalmen, a fifty-something New Yorker, discovers that he is not the man he wanted to be. Through many business and romantic indiscretions he has lost his once successful car dealership. Now he must make the decision to face the challenges of his not so youthful life.
12) Ocean's eleven
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
13) Ocean's 8
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of infamous criminal mastermind Danny Ocean, seeks to carry on the family business by plotting an enormous heist on New York's annual Met Gala. After being released from prison, Debbie recruits her best friend Lou to set out and assemble a team of larcenists. This hodgepodge, seven-member team includes everyone from a street pick-pocket, a computer hacker, and a jewelry expert. The women band together to infiltrate...
14) Logan lucky
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. In a fun twist, six NASCAR stars pop up in non-driver cameo roles in the film.
15) Pleasantville
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twin siblings David and Jennifer couldn't be more different: she curses, smokes, and sleeps around; David is a prototypical nerdy outcast. Then, one dark and stormy night, they're sucked into the TV and Pleasantville: a perfect suburban Disneyland suffused with church-social niceness and Rotary Club boosterism. Jennifer despises it all. So, like a pint-size Lauren Bacall, she refuses to play the role of poodle-skirted good girl and introduces one...
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Toto fails as lookout, Cosimo is caught attempting to steal a car. In the big house, Cosimo's cellmate tells him about a fabulous Bellini, so now he needs a Mullinski. Cosimo asks his girlfriend Rosalind for help, and she looks for assistance from Toto, who calls on Basil, who draws in Leon, who seeks counsel from Riley, who selects the perfect Mullinski--Pero, who promptly reneges and then calls upon the burglary talents of once great safecracker...
17) The good German
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes place in the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, where U.S. Army war correspondent Jake Geismar becomes involved with Lena Brandt, a former lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt led by both the American and Russian armies. Intrigue mounts as Jake tries to uncover the secrets Lena may be hiding in her desperation to get herself and her husband out of Berlin. Tully is an American soldier working in the U.S. army motor pool who is assigned...
18) Ocean's thirteen
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Banks in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Banks. Banks' even goes so far as to finding amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't stand for Banks and what he's done to a friend. Uniting...
Series
Criterion collection volume 249
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 p. ; 18 cm.)
Description
The film is considered one of the most influential political films in history, by Gillo Pontecorvo. Vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, etc. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern warfare, with its terrorist attacks and the brutal techniques...
20) Magic Mike
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.